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<h4>English Translation of Codebook</h4>
<h4>Elections to the Republic's Assembly from 1975 to 1991</h4>
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<h4>1 - Source</h4>
The results here were culled from frequesia (circunscription)
level provisional countings.   The data were transmitted to the
STAPE by the Civilian Governments (Cabinet of the Republic's Ministers
for the Autonomous Regions).
<h4>2 - Specfications</h4>
The file PARTIDOS.TXT provides the name and label of the parties
that contested the elctions to the Republic's Assembly
from 1975 to 1991.
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The file ARXX.TXT shows the results of the Republic's Assembly's
elections, and XX indicates the year the election was held
(one file per election).
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The files ARXX.TXT are ASCII sequential files,
each composed of 20 records and each record
constituted by the following fields:
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FIELD                                             SIZE
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District Code or Autonomous Region Code              2
Name of the District                                30
Label for Registered Voters                         10
Number of Registered Voters                          7
Percentage of Voters                                 5
Label for Blank Votes                               10
Number of Blank Votes                                7
Percentage of Blank Votes                            5
Label for Null Votes                                10
Number of Null Votes                                 5
Party Labels                                        10 (for each label)
Number of Votes by Party                             7 (for each party)
Percentage of Votes by Party                         5 (for each party)
Number of Seats by Party                             3 (for each party)
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<li>All fields are located on the right, except the name of the district.
<li>All parties are disposed in alphabetical orcer and in a fixed position.
The contesting parties vary in each election.
<li>In the districts in which a party does not contest the election or
contests it in an alliance, its votes and percentages are
filled with "-".
The same applies to the parties that have not received any seats.
<li>In the 1975 elections, blank votes and null votes were not
discriminated.   The totals for both are placed on the same position
as blank votes.   Null votes are filled with "-".
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<h4>3 - Additional Information</h4>
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		    Total                    Allocation Criterion
Election            Number of                for seat distribution
Date                Seats                    (Legislation)
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April 25, 1975       247                     Law no. 4/75 of January 7
April 25, 1976       259                          #              #
December 2, 1979     246                     Law no. 14/79 of May 16
October 5, 1980      246                          #              #
April 25, 1980       246                          #              #
October 6, 1985      246                          #              #
July 19, 1987        246                          #              #
October 6, 1991      226                      Law no. 18/90 of July 24
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Law no. 4/75 of January 7
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Article 2
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(number and distribution of seats)
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<li>1 - In each district (circulo eleitoral), there will be one seat
per 25,000 or a rest higher than 12,500.
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Law no. 14/79 of May 16
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Article 13
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(number and distribution of seats)
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<li>1 - The total number of seats to be distributed amon the
districts is 246, proportionally allocated in each district
accoring to the D'Hondt method of highest averages,
as mandated by article no 16.
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Law no. 18/90 of July 24
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Article no. 13
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(number and distribution of seats)
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<li>1 - The total number of deputies is 230.
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<li>2 - The total number of deputies electedin the districts is 226,
proportionally allocated in each district according to the D'Hondt method
of highest averages, as mandated by article no. 16.
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